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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4202
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Scope & Content:: ROOKE LETTERS Original Letters of Admiral Sir George Rooke to James Vernon, Secretary of State; from the 'Britannia' at Spithead, 17 June 1697, and from his flagship the 'Shrewsbury', 11 May-16 Sept. 1700. French, English and Latin. The subject of the letters is the joint expedition of the Engl...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1697-1700
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4204
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Scope & Content:: SCHAUB CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence of Sir Luke Schaub during his successive embassies to Vienna (1715, 1718, 1719), Madrid (1718), Hanover (1720), Paris (1721-1724), Dresden (1731), etc., with Secretaries of State, especially James Stanhope, Earl Stanhope, James Craggs and John Carteret, Lord...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4205
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Scope & Content:: TRANSCRIPTS BY BIRCH of state letters and papers. The principal contents are:- (1) 'Memorabilia in the Earl of Strafford's letters', being brief notes of the contents of the two volumes of Letters of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, printed in 1740 by Dr. William Knowler from the origi...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4207
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Scope & Content:: MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL TRACTS and historical papers, some of them in Birch's autograph. Viz:- (1) 'An Inquiry into the Rights of Free Subjects in which the Cases of the British Sailors and Common Soldiers are distinctly Consider'd and Compar'd', etc. The MS. as prepared for the press. The tra...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4209
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Scope & Content:: EXTRACTS FROM PRINTED BOOKS, etc.; 17th cent. Latin, French and English. Viz.:- (1) 'Notes taken out of the Historye of the Raigne of King H. 7 written by ... Francis [Bacon] Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban: printed 1622'. ff. 3-18. (2) 'Brief notes taken out of Samuell Daniel's collection o...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4219
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Scope & Content:: Treatises on Natural History; circ. 1751-1758. Viz.:- (1) 'Traité du Corail ... Pour servir a l'histoire naturelle de la mer', by Jean André de Peyssonnel, F.R.S., 'Médecin botaniste entretenu par sa majesté dans l'isle de Gaudeloupe', etc. ff. 1-1 13. For an account of this, and other treatis...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1751-1758
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4220
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Scope & Content:: 'Traitté ou dissertation sur le Dragon ou dragoneau, Draco sive Dracunculus Persarum, veine de Medine des Arabes, vena Medinensis Arabum, ver lutonie ver soye des miodernes vulgairement appellé dans les lles de l'Amerique, ver de Guinée'. by Jean André de Peyssonnel, F.R.S.; circ. 1758. For an E...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: French
Date Range:: c 1758
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4221
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Scope & Content:: Vol. I (ff. 348). A-C. includes: ff. 1-14 Lancelot Addison, Dean of Lichfield: Biographical notice: 18th cent.: Fr. ff. 9b, 15 Joseph Addison, dramatist and essayist: Biographical notices: 18th cent.: Fr. and Engl. f. 17 Reverend Michael Ainsworth, Master of Cornhampton School: Biographical no...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4222
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Scope & Content:: Vol. II (ff. 274). D-L. includes: f. 1 Sir Robert Dallington, Master of the Charterhouse: Biographical notice: 18th cent. f. 2 Edmund Dickenson, d 1707 MD: Biographical notices: 18th cent. f. 3 Publius Cornelius DolabeIla, Roman general; d. 44 BC: Biographical notice: 18th cent. f. 4 Horatius ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 4223
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Scope & Content:: Vol. III (ff. 283). M-S. includes: ff.1-5 Thomas Madox, d 1727 Historiographer Royal: Biographical notice: 18th cent. ff. 6-12 Sir John Marsham, 1st Baronet d 1685: Biographical notice: 18th cent.: Fr. ff. 13,16 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough: Biographical notice: 18th cent. ff. 17-33...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1730-c 1766
Extent:: 1 item

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